How To Install Apt Packages Without Sudo Permissions

So installing packages on linux is normally easy unless you don't have sudo rights. This can get annoying, I have experienced this in the past and found a work around. Quite a handy one actually. Depending on how you plan to install the packages you will need a sudo password one last time. But after that, in theory, never again, to install .deb packages anyway. I created a post about this a few months ago, the steps of which are here: https://dev.to/rbevin777/installing-apt-packages-without-sudo-4dkm

Also they are outlined below. If you want there is also the code for a python script to do all these manual steps automatically as well so be sure to check that out!

Step 1: Install apt-rdepends

We need this package to get the other apt package dependancies.
sudo apt-get install apt-rdepends -y
Step 2: Download the .deb pacakge

So now you should navigate to the folder you wish to install these packages under. Once you do this you can now download the pakcage and dependencies. In this example I use cflow as the package I wish to install. Replace this with whatever you wish.
apt-get download $(apt-rdepends cflow|grep -v "^ ")
Step 3: Extract the .deb packages.

You will need to extract each deb package individually which is annoying but this can be automated. You can extract the debian packages in the current directory using the following
dpkg -x deb_package.deb .
Step 4: Adding the Packages to the PATH

This can be done by adding the by updating the .profile file
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/path/to/executable"

Step 5: Refresh the .profile File

When we update the .profile file with the PATH changes, this needs to be then refreshed. This can be done by running the following
source .profile

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